Forget the WAGs at the Euros. Never mind the athletes’ antics in the Olympic Village in a few weeks’ time. If you’re looking for romance, there’s only one sport where it’s truly heating up this summer, and that’s tennis.
It is, let’s face it, sexy enough on court: the thwack of the ball, the “oohs” and “ahhs” of the crowd, the fact that most of the players wouldn’t look out of place in a Calvin Klein ad. Little wonder that the screenwriter of this year’s racy tennis film Challengers, Justin Kuritzkes, called it a naturally “erotic sport”. But it’s off court where the action is. Not since Steffi Graf and Andre Agassi went public in 1999 has there been so much chatter about tennis